On A Back Road, Looking West (Fireflies), Blue Stores, NY. 6/20/25, archival pigment inkjet print
Contributed by Karlyn Benson / This month I am looking forward to the opening of “Putting it Together: Transforming Collage” at 68 Prince Street Gallery. This group exhibition features the work of over forty artists and is the first in a series of ten collage exhibitions taking place this summer in the Hudson Valley. June exhibition highlights include “Good for Something” at Roundabouts Now, the “Upstate Photography Biennial” at CPW, “Animal Bodies,” with Elana Herzog, Jean Shin, and Brigitta Váradi at the Athens Cultural Center, Portia Munson & Jared Handelsman at Tanja Grunert, “Seven Women Chase Icebergs” at The Re Institute, Melora Kuhn at Private Public, and “Everything is Everything” at N/A Project Space. Elijah Wheat Showroom’s new Beacon gallery opens June 13 with paintings by E.E. Kono. Upstate Art Weekend takes place in June this year and will include one hundred sixty participating artists and organizations throughout the region. Finally, don’t miss “glögg glögg,” a pop up show in Woodstock featuring affordable work by more than two dozen artists.
New York / Hudson Valley
Galleries are listed from north (Albany) to south (Nyack)
Opalka Gallery at the Albany Public Library / Pine Hills Branch, 517 Western Avenue, Albany, NY / Super-Natural, Berly Brown, Ginger Ertz, Andrea Hersh, Jenny Hutchinson, Mara Lefebvre, Wendy Bodenstab Lynch, Pete Mauney, Charles Steckler, Ann Wolf / Jun 5 — Nov 7
Athens Cultural Center / 24 Second Street, Athens, NY / Animal Bodies: Elana Herzog, Jean Shin, and Brigitta Váradi; Curated by Yasmeen Siddiqui / Jun 5 – Aug 16 / First Friday: Jun 5, 5-7pm / Artist & Curator Talk: Jun 26, 5-7pm
Livestock Marking Paint, wood, 12 x 12 x 2 inches. Photo credit: Keith Nolan
SEPTEMBER / 4 Hudson Street #3, Kinderhook, NY / Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Steadfast Study / May 2 – Jun 28
Carrie Haddad Gallery / 622 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Between Here and Home: Fred Cohen, Frank DePietro, Deb Lawrence, Olan Quattro, and ransome / May 22 – Jul 12
Creative Legion / 7 Fairview Ave, Hudson, NY / Truthful Search: Charles Thomas O’Neil / Mar 20 – Jun 13
Fireplace Project/ 435 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Patrick Bayly / May 23 – Jun 14 / Reception Jun 13, 4-7 pm
Front Room Gallery / 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / No Horizon: Sasha Bezzubov, Phil Buehler, Chris Coffin, Stephen Mallon, Linda Griggs, Patricia Smith, Shira Toren, Kathleen Vance, and Zoe Wetherall / May 22- Jul 19
Hudson Hall / 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Garth Evans: Watercolors / Apr 11 – May 3 / Surface, Structure, String: Hudson Valley Textile Art Now; Curated by Richard Saja / May 8 – Jul 12
Lightforms Art Center / 743 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Swoln River: Lizzy Marshall; Painting the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz: Laura Summer; The Art of the Heart: Lucien Dante Lazar; The Greatest of All Secrets: Sampsa Pirtola; Gegenraum: Meditations on Etheric Space, Laura Arteaga Charlton / May 16 – Jun 7
Philip Douglas Fine Art / 545 Warren Street, 2nd fl., Hudson, NY / Katharine Umsted: Take Cover / May 2 – Jun 7
panty hose foil, 25 x 18 inches
Private Public Gallery / 530 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Melora Kuhn, The Legacy of Disembodiment / Jun 13 – Jul 12 / Opening Reception Jun 13, 3-6 pm
Tanja Grunert / 21 Prospect Avenue, Hudson, NY / Pieces of Her Body – Shadows, Wind & Rocks: Portia Munson & Jared Handelsman / May 16 – Jun 14
Time & Space Limited / 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / With Quiet Eyes, New York State-based Millay Arts Alumni: Polly Apfelbaum, Paolo Arao, Ann Burke Daly, Maya Ciarrocchi, Danielle Dimston, Julie Evans, Shanti Grumbine, Kylie Heidenheimer, Martine Kaczynski, Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, Elena Sisto, David B. Smith, Charles Tisa, Jayoung Yoon and Deborah Zlotsky / May 23 – Jun 20
Raphael Moser Gallery / 75 Bridge St., Catskill, NY / Marks, Makers, and Storytellers: Alexis Elton, Tracy Hayes, Leo Madriz, Nicole Parcher, Gelah Penn, Michael Rodriguez / Jun 25 – Jul 31 / Reception Jun 27, 2-5 pm; Performance by Leighann Kowalsky 3 pm
RUTHANN / 453 Main Street, Catskill, NY / Requited Configurations: Natalie Beall, Charlotte Beckett, Damien Davis, Mark Dion, Shanti Grumbine, Nicholas Hamilton, Peter Hoffmeister, Jessi Li, David Lukowski, Scott Penkava, Monika Zarzeczna, and Steph Zimmerman; Curated by Witts / May 1 – Jun 13
LABspace / 2642 Route 23, Hillsdale, NY / Sara Farrell Okamura: On The Precipice / May 23 – Jun 28
Jane Street Art Center / 11 Jane St, Saugerties, NY / surREAL: Yoonmi Lee, Scott Lewis, Betsey Regan, Grey Ivor Morris, Moshe Katvan, Lisa Samalin, Lucinda Abra, Meredith Morabito, Casey Kavanagh, Lauren Bergman, Len Jenkin, Josh Kramb, Edward Burden, Emily Clark / May 16 – Jun 19 / Matthew Gilbert: Pretend till it Hurts / Jun 27 – Aug 1 / Opening Reception Jun 27, 4-6 pm
The Sketchbook Gallery / 9 Jane St, Saugerties, NY / Ted Dixon: Would it be enough / May 16 – Jun 19 / Tatana Kellner: Inequity / Jun 27 – Aug 1 / Opening Reception Jun 27, 4-6 pm
The Richards Gallery at Opus 40 / 356 George Sickle Road, Saugerties, NY / Nancy Azara + Darla Bjork: A Shared Legacy / 15 May – Jun 21
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts / 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Flock: 2026 Artists-in-Residence Exhibition / May 24 – Jun 21
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) / 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Active Members Spring Exhibition; Small Works F-J; Love is the Revolution / May 1 – Jun 14 / European Landscapes and Landmarks from the Permanent Collection / May 1 – Aug 9
glögg glögg / 591 Zena Road, Woodstock, NY / Jun 25-29
68 Prince Street Gallery / 68 Prince Street, Kingston, NY / Putting it Together: Transforming Collage / Jun 13 – Jul 12 / Opening Reception Jun 13, 5-8 pm
The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) / 25 Dederick Street, Kingston, NY / Upstate Photography Biennial; Gestures of Care, Resilience, and Connection / May 30 – Sep 6
Headstone / 28 Hurley Ave, Kingston, NY / Eye Message, Tim Wehrle / Jun 6– 27 / Opening Reception Jun 6, 5-8 pm
Maiden Lane Gallery / 51 Maiden Lane, Kingston, NY / The Rip in Her Sleeve: Alicia Schirrmeister and Ruth Lauer Manenti; Iliana Arocho, curated by Matt Moment / May 9 – Jun 7
One Mile Gallery / 475 Abeel Street, Kingston, NY / Expanded Realities: William C. Harrington & Genesis Chapman / Opened May 16
Roundabouts Now / 25 Barbarossa Lane, Kingston, NY / Good for Something: Corydon Cowansage, Nathaniel de Large, Kyle Clairmont Jacques, Nicholas Sullivan; Co-curated by Kyle Clairmont Jacques / May 23 – Jul 5
Upstate Art Weekend (UAW) HQ / 236 Wall Street, Room 103, Kingston, NY / Earthen Plot, Curated by Helen Toomer / May 16 – Jun 29
Utopia / 35 North Front Street, Kingston, NY / Iron and Indigo: Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Julia Clift, Courtney Dudley, Ellie Irons, Lydia Kern, Laini Nemett, Kate Stewart, Nichole van Beek, and Allie Wist / Jun 13 – Jul 11 / Opening Jun 13, 4 – 7 pm
28 x 16 1/2 x 3 inches, Photo courtesy of Garth Greenan Gallery
Women’s Studio Workshop / 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston, NY / Rock, Paper, Sister: Kate Bingaman-Burt and Elizabeth Saloka / Jun 5 – Sep 18 / Opening Reception Jun 5, 6-8 pm
N/A Project Space / 137 Martin Sweedish Rd, New Paltz, NY / Everything is Everything: Two exhibitions curated by Lauren Hirshfield / creep is my kink: Natalie Beall, John DeSousa, Yi Hsuan Lai, Gracelee Lawrence, and Greeshma Chenni Veettil / In ter/situ: Benjamin Dimock, Brigitta Varadi, Corinne Beardsley, Courtney Dudley, E Saffronia Downing, Gabrielle Shelton, Jeila Guaramian, Melinda Kiefer Santiago, Melissa Dadourian, Viktorsha Uliyanova / Jun 13–29 / Opening Reception Jun 13, 2-6 pm
mounted on Sintra, 29 x 41.5 inches
The Re Institute / 1395 Boston Corners Road, Millerton, NY / Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: James Esber and Jane Fine / May 30 – Jul 12 / Seven Women Chase Icebergs: Daisy Craddock, Gill Ord, Trine Bumiller, Karen Marston, Barbara Friedman, Elisabeth Condon, Brenda Zlamany; Curated by Brenda Zlamany / Artists talk with Jane Fine & James Esber Jun 6, 2 pm ; Two artist-led workshops: plein air painting and exquisite corpse drawing, Jun 27, 1-6 pm
Montgomery Row Art Exhibition Space / 2nd Floor, 6423 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY / Mark Hopkins: The Sitting – An Exhibition of Portraits / May 12 – Jun 30
‘T’ Space, The Archive Gallery / 60 Round Lake Rd, Rhinebeck, NY / Furniture by Architects; Sculpture by Margaret Saliske / Jun 14 – Aug 23
The Millbrook Arts Project / 3 Friendly Lane, Millbrook, NY / UN REAL: Fern Apfel, Betsy Brandt, Monica Miller Link, Kevin Mosca, Laura Von Rosk, and Daniel Walworth / May 8 – Jun 28
tyte Gallery / 3280 Franklin Ave (2nd Floor), Millbrook NY / Richard Marr: Near and Far / Apr 18 – Jun 7
Gallery 40, 40 Cannon Street, Poughkeepsie, NY / Beyond Boundaries: Mary Ann Glass, Amy Silberkleit, Regina Quinn, Lois Walsh / May 2 – Jun. 14
Palmer Gallery at Vassar / College Center, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY / Emily Nomer: 10,000 Hours, An Introspective / Jun 4–27 / Artist’s Reception Jun 4, 5–7 pm
Wallkill River Center for the Arts / 232 Ward Street, Montgomery, NY / Janine Lambers: Reaching Across / May 16 – Jun 22
Strongroom Presents in partnership with Ann Street Gallery / Safe Harbors’ Ritz Theater Stagehouse, 100 Ann Street, Newburgh NY / Millicent Young: Holding Light Sutra / May 9 – Jul 12
Pictorial Foundation / 105 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY / Layers: Ulli Gruber / May 30 – Jun 5 / CODE GIRL / May 30 – Jul 26 / Vantage Points, Curated by Bek Vitarelle, / Jun 25 – Jul 12
Tooker Gallery / 195 Front Street, Newburgh, NY / Alejandro Angio: Chinese Brush Paintings / May 9 – Jun 14
BAU Gallery / 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Karen Allen: Surprise Garden; Soli Pierce: Stillness Speaks; BAU Invitational 2026 / May 8 – Jun 7 / BAU Gallery Artists: Convergence 2026 / Jun 12 – Jul 5 / Opening Reception Jun 13, 6–8 pm
Distortion Society / 155 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Josué Morales Urbina: Larrupin / May 9 – Jul 2
Elijah Wheat Showroom / 133 Main St, Beacon, NY / E.E. Kono: Dispersion / Jun 13 – Jul 19 / Opening Jun 13
Savage Wonderground Art Gallery / 139 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Savage/Wonder II: Amelia Biewald, Caroline Blum, Beth Caron, Shawn Dulaney, Rory Gevis, Karsen Heagle, Gina Herrera, Robert Kelly, Sara Nesbitt, Brent Owens, David Reisman, Michael Schropp, Gret Sterret Smith, Charles Spurrier, Cathy Weiss, Auguster D. Williams / Apr 4 – Jul 5
Soon is Now at The River Center / 8 Long Dock Rd, Beacon, NY / Museum of Fishes and Greens, a multimedia installation on Climate, Craft and Food in the Sundarbans, India / May 22 – Jun 28
Super Secret Projects / 484 Main St, Beacon NY (inside Hyperbole) / The Repeal of Gravity / Marin Kenny: on building a home in a body / May 9 – Jun 6
Ligenza Moore Gallery / 78 Trout Brook Rd, Cold Spring, NY / Distant Lands: James Biederman, Katherine Bradford, Marieken Cochius, Ada Cruz, Leslie Fry, James Gregg Herman, Grace Knowlton, Chris Martin, Tony Moore, Garry Nichols, Kevin Paulsen, Judy Pfaff, Ann Provan, David Provan, Jeff Shapiro, Greg Slick, Heinrich Spillmann, Kurt Steger, Don Voisine and Stephen Westfall / May 23 – Jul 26
Garrison Art Center / 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY / Mara Baldwin / May 16 – Jun 21
Kino Saito / 115 7th Street, Verplanck, NY / Alison Knowles, Celebration Red: Homage to Each Red Thing and Secrets of Ordinary Things / Irina Lotarevich: Indicators; Kikuo Saito: Red Talia / Mar 7 – Jun 14
Garner Arts Center / 55 West Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY / THOSE WHO CAN, Curated by Joe Fusaro; Theresa Gooby / May 16 – Jun 28
Yellow Studio / 792 NY-35, Cross River, NY / Fiber Forward / May 30 to Jun 29 / Artist talk Jun 27, 2 pm
Lagstein Gallery / 85 South Broadway, Nyack, NY / Eileen Brady Nelson: Illusions / May 31 – Jun 28
Perry Lawson Fine Art / 90 North Broadway, Nyack, NY / Remaking the Landscape: Anthony Campbell, Maxine Davidowitz, Stanford Kay, Christine Lafuente, and CR Laul / Apr 4 – Jun 14
Upstream Gallery / 8 Main St. Hastings on Hudson, NY / Exhibition of Current Artists Members / Jun 4 – 28 / Opening Reception Jun 7, 2-5 pm / Artist Talks Jun 14, 2- 5 pm / Closing Celebration Jun 28, 2-5 pm
New York / Catskills
1053 Gallery / 1053 Main Street, Fleischmanns, NY / Jennifer Coates: Aniline Sky / Jun 6 – Jul 5 / Reception Jun 6, 4-7 pm
Al Held Foundation (with River Valley Arts Collective), Boiceville, NY / Koyoltzintli: How to Play a Broken Bone, Curated by Jess Wilcox / Apr 18 – Jun 5 (By appointment only)
Catskill Art Space (CAS) / 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor, NY / Russell Floersch, Elana Herzog, and George McMahon / May 2 – Jun 20
Hawk + Hive / 61 Main Street, Andes, NY / David Hornung: Counterpoint; Brigitte Bouquet: GOBI / May 16–Jun 28
Headwaters Arts Center / 66 Main Street Stamford, NY / Intimate Topographies: Robin Factor and Colleen O’Hara / May 8 – Jun 13
Roxbury Arts Group / 5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury, NY / East Branch Delaware River Plein Air Painters Show / May 30 – Jul 3
Connecticut & Massachusetts / Housatonic Valley
Bernay Fine Art / 296 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA / Nature’s Palette: Stephanie Anderson, Joy Taylor and Laini Nemett / May 9 – Jun 7
Geary / 14 Main St, Salisbury CT / A Line, A Shape, A Tool: Sun You, Pooneh Maghazehe, Russell Maltz and William Corwin / May 23 – Jul 5 / Opening reception May 23, 4-6 pm
Jennifer Terzian Gallery / 3BB South Street, Litchfield, CT / Caetlynn Booth: Night and Day Dreaming / May 2 – Jun 13
Craven Contemporary / 4 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Summer Refresh: Bruno Leydet, Alex Katz, Louis Fratino, Sharon Core, David Shrigley, Daniel Murray, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Alex Prager, Kehinde Wiley and Danielle Orchard / May 23 – Jul 18
archival ink on paper in artist’s frame, 30 x 24 inches. Edition of 30.
Kenise Barnes Fine Art / 7 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Gabe Brown: Closer to the Sun / May 2 – Jun 7 / Behind My Eyes I Saw Me: Gregory Hennen and David Konigsberg / Jun 13 – Jul 26
Morrison Gallery / 60 North Main Street, Kent, CT / Michael McGrath: Soft Signals / May 30 – Jul 12
Connecticut – Fairfield County, Hartford, and New Haven
The Ely Center of Contemporary Art / 51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT / where is the human in this place; Mahsa Attaran: Dark Dey; Asma Waheed: Portals of Holding; Matin Malikzada: Centering / Apr 26 – Jul 5
G-Town Arts / 5 Main St, Georgetown, CT / In Bloom: Mary Bailey, Hannah Barrett, Diana Gubbay, Heide Follin, Eric Hibit, Catherine Howe, Erin Kono, Ann McRae, Mary Newhouse, Maggie Nowinski, Lawre Stone, and Lydia Viscardi / May 16 – Jun 13 / Summer Love, 10th Year Anniversary / Opening Reception Jun 20, 4-6 pm
Flinn Gallery / Greenwich Library, 101 West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT / extraORDINARY things , Qingjun Huang, Carole Kunstadt, Cheryl R. Riley, and Rob Strati / May 7 – Jun 17
39.4 x 29.5 inches
Heather Gaudio Fine Art / 382 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, CT / Patrick Alston, Apertures / May 2 – Jun 20 / On Point, Sarah Amos, Beth Dary, Kathleen Kucka, and Susan Schwalb / opens Jun 25
About the author: Karlyn Benson is an independent curator and consultant based in Beacon, NY. From 2022 to 2023 she was Interim Curator and Exhibitions Manager at The Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz where she curated Hudson Valley Artists 2023: Homespun. Previously she was the owner/director of Matteawan Gallery in Beacon. She assists artists with writing, promotion, studio administration, and exhibition planning.
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